{"id":256,"date":"2008-05-07T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/whats-a-jazz-1.html"},"modified":"2008-05-07T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T02:00:00","slug":"whats-a-jazz-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/whats-a-jazz-1.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a jazz-shaped faith? (review p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three fundamentals to jazz and thus a jazz shaped faith.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em\"><strong>Syncopation<\/strong>:<\/span>&nbsp; Accenting the offbeat.&nbsp; This is what allows jazz to swing and when applied to prayer or bible study it brings to light, not hidden meaning but meaning that is often missed. <\/li>\n<li><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em\">Improvisation:<\/span><\/strong>&nbsp; When we are so familiar with the basic groove of God&#8217;s word and the way of Christ we are in a position to experiment and play a little.&nbsp; Improvisation is the result of living in community with other practicing Christians who allow us the grace and encouragement to find our own voice.. <\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1.4em\"><strong>Call and Response:<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp; The essence of a jazz-shaped faith is listening.&nbsp; God calls to his creation on the first page of scripture and continued to call to Adam and Eve as they hid in shame.&nbsp; When we develop our ear for the voice of God and the needs of others we place ourselves in a position to respond by dawning the towel and basin and serving others as Christ did.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These concepts can be applied to the various aspects of our faith.&nbsp; For the foreseeable future I&#8217;m going to be syncopating, improvising and responding to the call of a love supreme.&nbsp; That is, I&#8217;ll be blogging often about the cross of Christ from a jazz-shaped perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three fundamentals to jazz and thus a jazz shaped faith. 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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